May 25
St. Bede the Venerable (England, 672-735)
Doctor of the Church, Father of English history
No OR today.
THE POPE'S DAY
The Holy Father met today with
- Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
- Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genoa and President of the Italian bishops' conference
- Rita Levi Montalcini, Emeritus Professor of Neurobiology of the Italian Commission of National Research's
Neurobiology Institute, 1986 Nobel Prize in Medicine, and member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- H.E. Bartolomej Kajtazi, Ambassador of Macedonia, on a farewell visit.
NB: In the appropriate post above, I have posted a translation of the Holy Father's homily at Vespers
in the Abbey of Montecassino yesterday.